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Nas > Jay. Nas is the goat. 

 

They both ultimately have highs and lows in their catalogues but imo Nas has higher highs that have aged more gracefully. Illmatic is the greatest pure rap album of all time and I can't see it being topped ever. I could listen to that album front to back every day for the rest of my life. Concise, technical writing while still telling a compelling story, perfect production, not a single bad track, Nas just glides over those beats in the smoothest way possible. 

 

The Score is the only album that comes close to Illmatic for me. 

 

 Jay albums have all aged worse than Nas' imo, probably cause they rely more on production so they tend to sound more dated. Reasonable Doubt is the only one that's aged gracefully. Blueprint, Black Album both sound so dated these days. Hard to take points away for that, but it's definitely a factor. 

 

Nas has:

 

Classics:

Illmatic

It Was Written

Stillmatic

Lost Tapes

 

Solid Albums:

I Am

God's Son

Street's Disciple

Distant Relatives

Life Is Good

NASIR

 

Jay:

 

Classics:

Reasonable Doubt

Blueprint

Black Album

 

Solid:

Vol. 1

Vol. 2

Watch the Throne

4:44

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Nas

 

Classic

Illmatic

It Was Written

 

Near Classic

God's Son

Stillmatic

 

Great

Lost Tapes

Life is Good

 

Good

I Am

Hip Hop is Dead

 

Meh

Nasir

Untitled

Street's Disciple

Distant Relatives

 

Better than your average rapper's best album, but trash relative to the rest of his work

Nastradamus

 

Jay

 

Classic

Blueprint

Reasonable Doubt

Black Album

 

Near Classic

Vol. 2

 

Great

4:44

American Gangster

Vol. 1

 

Good

Dynasty

Magna Carta

Blueprint 3

 

Meh

Vol. 3

 

Better than your average rapper's best album, but trash relative to the rest of his work

Blueprint 2

Kingdom Come

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1 minute ago, Hot Sauce said:

Nas

 

Classic

Illmatic

It Was Written

 

Near Classic

God's Son

Stillmatic

 

Great

Lost Tapes

Life is Good

 

Good

I Am

Hip Hop is Dead

 

Meh

Nasir

Untitled

Street's Disciple

Distant Relatives

 

Better than your average rapper's best album, but trash relative to the rest of his work

Nastradamus

 

Jay

 

Classic

Blueprint

Reasonable Doubt

Black Album

 

Near Classic

Vol. 2

 

Great

4:44

American Gangster

Vol. 1

 

Good

Dynasty

Magna Carta

Blueprint 3

 

Meh

Vol. 3

 

Better than your average rapper's best album, but trash relative to the rest of his work

Blueprint 2

Kingdom Come

I don't hate it.

 

I'd probably move Blueprint 3 down to the last category though.

 

 

 

 

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1 minute ago, -GD- said:

black album was dope af. i loved how it had a different producer for each track. it felt like jay's most dynamic work. 

can't forget that it birthed this classic either:

 

 

 

 

I take points off from Black Album though solely for the inclusion of Jay-Zs Mom bragging about how he learned to ride a bike when he was 5 as if that's something special. 

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Just now, Casual said:

can't forget that it birthed this classic either:

 

 

 

 

I take points off from Black Album though solely for the inclusion of Jay-Zs Mom bragging about how he learned to ride a bike when he was 5 as if that's something special. 

on paper, it sounded like an awful idea. but it was so good lol. a lot of credit goes to shinoda. 

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